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How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2021
States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882352
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Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021
In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597411
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How civilian attitudes respond to the state's violence: lessons from the Israel-Gaza conflict
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2021
States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648941
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Aid and radicalization: the case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Hoeffler, Anke - 2021
In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific strategies. They can provide financial assistance and generate a reciprocal relationship with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506483
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Chapter 21 Economics of Defense in a Globalized World
McGuire, Martin C. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 623-648). 2007
In a world continuously beset by conflict and violence, the positive study of international security and defense has … defense economics has thus greatly increased, but the opportunity to exploit new insights from throughout economics grown … on the contributions expected of defense economics in a globalized world where old patterns of thinking risk obsolescence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024408
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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members' efforts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480849
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Group contests with internal conflict and power asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467392
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Group Contests with Internal Conflict and Power Asymmetry
Choi, Jay Pil; Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kim, Jaesoo - CESifo - 2014
We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the same time engage in contest with fellow group members to appropriate the possible reward. We introduce within group power asymmetry and complementarity in members’ efforts, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103399
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Extractive Institutions, Choking Taxes, and War: On the (Beneficial) Impact of Inequality in Autocracies
Schwuchow, Soeren - 2018
We develop a framework for analyzing how the distribution of income-earning ability among citizens affects an autocrat’s extractive policies and her intended risk of war. Relying on a general equilibrium model, we show that (i) autocrats can utilize the military for redistribution and (ii) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892035
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Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff
Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018
We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931655